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TSSA moving forward in 2023
ANDY BAIN reports on the 126th TSSA conference that took place from June 3-5 in Cork
Members of the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA) and the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) are joined by their families on the picket line outside London Euston train station as members of both unions take part in a fresh strike over jobs, pay and conditions, July 27, 2022
ANGUS REID explains the significance of Cuba’s egalitarian in letter and spirit Family Code and the pertinent lessons it holds for democracies anywhere in the world
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NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
THE TSSA has been in the fore in hybrid conferences and the voting by the 55 delegates present and six online worked very smoothly.
TSSA’s 126th annual conference in Cork took place in the wake of two abandoned mergers, both described as “uncomfortable for TSSA” by the current interim general secretary Peter Pendle.
Guest speaker Liam Berney of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions spoke of the change in public mood in Ireland due to the experience of the pandemic and profit frenzy that followed.
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